This post has been a few days in the making. I've got assignments to do so I'm being really productive and posting this...

The governments (amazeingly un-designed) E-Tax package is worse than I previously thought. Nowhere does it state you need a web browser installed to use it, but you otherwise it crashes without warning when you try to submit it. Sure you can use it without a web browser, but not submit it, which makes it next to useless. Also the password supplied (which looks remarkably like a md5 cryptographic hash) is supplied as 4 blocks of 4 hex characters, but when I typed it in like that (with spaces) it crashed. Damn, second time around I tried without spaces and amazingly it worked. The program is just so generally annoying, it could have been great but some short-sighted design (yeah right, what design) decisions make it a pain to use. Oh and don't forget it's 6.3 meg to download (43 mins at 26400 (by calculation, actually took longer because their (microsoft) ftp server couldn't resume a transfer)). Also they want an email address to link to your name, sneaky way of tagging further information to you citizen ID (TFN), as usual for questionable sites I used a unique one that is easy to link to the site of origin, lets hope it gets spammed badly.

Further to the I'd like one of these thanks of the previous post, this keyboard, Happy Hacker Lite 2 USB from Everything linux is also rather nice, but it's vastly more expensive than the previous...

I'm having a good time.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw